Strangers on a Train
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—Sarah Pinborough, author of Behind Her Eyes
PRAISE FOR PATRICIA HIGHSMITH
“Patricia Highsmith’s novels are peerlessly disturbing. . . . Her thrillers take us into ourselves, not out of ourselves, and lead us to pleasures we hate to admit to. . . . Highsmith’s books are the queasiest fun imaginable.”
—Terrence Rafferty, The New Yorker
“A border zone of the macabre, the disturbing, the not quite accidental. . . . Highsmith achieves the effect of the occult without any recourse to supernatural machinery.”
—John Gross, New York Times Book Review
“The feeling of menace behind most Highsmith novels, the sense that ideas and attitudes alien to the reasonable everyday ordering of society are being suggested, has made many readers uneasy. One closes most of her books . . . with a feeling that the world is more dangerous than one had imagined.”
—Julian Symons, New York Times Book Review
“An atmosphere of nameless dread, of unspeakable foreboding, permeates every page of Patricia Highsmith, and there’s nothing quite like it.”
—Boston Globe
“Mesmerizing. . . . Not to be recommended for the weak-minded and impressionable.”
—Washington Post Book World
ALSO BY PATRICIA HIGHSMITH
The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith
A Suspension of Mercy
The Blunderer
People Who Knock on the Door
The Glass Cell
Deep Water
This Sweet Sickness
A Dog’s Ransom
Small g: A Summer Idyll
Little Tales of Misogyny
The Animal-Lover’s Guide to Beastly Murder
Slowly, Slowly in the Wind
The Black House
Mermaids on the Golf Course
Carol
The Talented Mr. Ripley
A Game for the Living
The Cry of the Owl
The Two Faces of January
Those Who Walk Away
The Tremor of Forgery
Eleven
Ripley Under Ground
Ripley’s Game
Edith’s Diary
The Boy Who Followed Ripley
Found in the Street
Ripley Under Water
Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes
The Price of Salt (as Clare Morgan)
Don’t miss other titles by
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH
“Tom Ripley is one of the most interesting characters in world literature.” —Anthony Minghella, director of the 1999 film
The Talented Mr. Ripley
“So good and utterly addictive.”
—Megan Abbott, author of You Will Know Me
“Highsmith tracks her characters as they track each other. . . . In her fiction, surveillance and introspection are the same thing.”
—Terrence Rafferty, The New York
“Viscerally romantic.”
—Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker
Introduction copyright © 2021 by Paula Hawkins
Copyright 1950 by Patricia Highsmith
First published as a Norton paperback 2001, reissued with a new introduction 2021
Originally published in 1950 by Harper & Brothers, New York, and Cresset Press, London
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